Fox News host dismisses report that Bolton heard Trump hold aid until Ukraine announced investigation of Bidens

Steve Hilton dismisses notion of John Bolton testifying in Trump's trial in the Senate: “It doesn't change anything”

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From the January 26, 2020, edition of Fox News' The Next Revolution

STEVE HILTON (HOST): Breaking tonight, a Bolton bombshell. Former national security adviser John Bolton, in his upcoming book, tonight is reportedly saying that President Trump did push to hold aid to Ukraine until officials there agreed to investigations, including into the Bidens.

Democrats have predictably jumped on this, with Chuck Schumer and all the House impeachment managers putting out statements tonight saying that these revelations contradict the president's impeachment defense and that John Bolton must now testify.

Well, I've read the full report and it seems to me that it doesn't change anything of substance, but you can be sure this is the story that the impeachment fanatics on establishment state TV will be obsessed with tomorrow. We'll break it all down for you in a minute.

Hilton is discussing a new report from The New York TImes. Maggie Haberman touches on a few aspects here:

SCOOP: Bolton book draft, circulated to associates and sent to WH for review process, describes a convo w POTUS where he says he doesn't want to release withheld aid till Ukraine turned over material related to investigations @nytmike and me https://t.co/N3Tsce4gR7

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2020

Bolton claims in drafts of manuscript that Pompeo privately told him that there was no basis to what Giuliani said about Yovanovitch and that he questioned whether she was going after his other clients in her corruption crackdown https://t.co/N3Tsce4gR7

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2020